Multiple Olympic champion Ivan Patzaichin was buried with military honors at Bellu Cemetery
Multiple Olympic champion Ivan Patzaichin was buried today with military honors at Bellu Cemetery. The funeral was attended by about 300 people, including officials, coaches and great champions of Romania. A detachment of the 30th Guards Regiment „Mihai Viteazul” presented honors and executed three artillery salvos. The former Dinamo canoeist was a knight of the Steaua României National Order, a distinction he had received from the Romanian Presidency in 2019 and held the rank of retired brigadier general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ivan Patzaichin died on Sunday, at the age of 71. (RADIO ROMANIA)
The annual meeting of the Romanian diplomacy in Bucharest
Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said today that the current political crisis does not affect Romania’s foreign policy actions, and proof of this is the annual meeting of Romanian diplomacy, which has just begun in Bucharest, as well as visits by some senior foreign officials:
Bogdan Aurescu: I think that the fact that the state institutions, diplomacy, our embassies, the MFA, in general, manage to fulfill their duties in a very efficient way, even in situations of internal political crisis, shows that we are on the right track, when we talk about consolidating resilience, that is exactly the theme that the meeting of Romanian diplomacy represents today.
The meeting of the Romanian diplomacy brings together, as every year in Bucharest, the heads of the diplomatic missions and consular offices of our country abroad. (RADIO ROMANIA)
Alitalia, the Italian National Company, has canceled several flights
The traffic controllers from the Italian Civil Aviation Authority go on strike at 13:00, local time, for 4 hours. Several flights to and from Bucharest, Suceava, Satu Mare, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova and Bacau are canceled or postponed, our correspondent Elena Postelnicu reports from Rome. ALITALIA, Italy’s National Company, was forced to cancel more than 70 flights, 20 of which are international. (RADIO ROMANIA)/aboboc
